Shell inaugurates region’s first LNG filling station in Hungary

Multinational energy company Shell inaugurated a filling station offering liquefied natural gas (LNG) in Szigetszentmiklós, next to the M0 motorway, its first in the region, Péter Szijjártó, the foreign minister, said on Thursday.

With the opening of the filling station, Shell has entered Hungary’s LNG vehicle fuel market and contributes to the achievement of the government’s emissions reduction targets, the foreign ministry cited Szijjártó as saying.

Szijjártó noted that road freight transport accounts for about 9 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, which could be reduced either by shifting to rail transport or using vehicle fuels with lower emissions. Using LNG in road freight transport reduces greenhouse gas emissions by 15-30 percent compared to normal fuels, so “it is a huge step towards reducing emissions globally,” Szijjártó said.

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